Radiation astronomy/Geography/Quiz

An orange sunset in the Mahim Bay is shown around the Haji Ali Dargah in India. Credit: Humayunn Peerzaada.

Radiation geography, or astronomical radiation geography, is the lecture and article of the course on the principles of radiation astronomy about the effect of entities, sources and objects observed with radiation astronomy in the universe on locations and regions. Astrogeography also includes geographical radiation astronomy which deals with the effects of location and regions on radiation astronomy. Both fields are included here.

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Using a coordinate system, X-rays have been located near the north pole of what rocky object?

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True or False, Tinia is the god of the sky and the highest god in Etruscan mythology equivalent to Saturn.

TRUE

FALSE

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Which geographical phenomena are associated with the Earth?

quartz is the second most abundant mineral

an atmosphere containing CO2

a north geographic and magnetic pole

a rotational axis

a prime meridian

a cycle of lower temperatures in each latitudinal hemisphere

a cycle of higher temperatures in each longitudinal hemisphere

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The galactic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system in spherical coordinates, with the Sun as its center, a primary direction aligned with the approximate center of the Milky Way galaxy, and a fundamental plane approximately in the what?

35

True or False, Cherenkov telescopes do not actually detect the gamma rays directly.

TRUE

FALSE

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Phenomena associated with HESS?

has a gaseous surface

Namibia

currently-operating installation on Mars

exploration of gamma-ray sources

located on the Cranz family farm

Gamsberg

37

The process of bombardment-induced surface alteration or damage is called.

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True or False, An observatory is a place.

TRUE

FALSE

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Which of the following are observatories on Earth?

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Giza Pyramids

TRACE

Tuorla Observatory

the Hubble

Aldershot Observatory

Stonehenge

SOFIA

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The BLAST is a what.

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True or False, The ANITA experiment is designed to study ultra-high-energy cosmic neutrinos using the Greenland ice sheet.

TRUE

FALSE

42

Which of the following are associated with sounding rockets?

a launch location

Woomera Test Range

White Sands Proving Grounds

Titania

Natal, Brazil

the Skylark

43

The world's first and largest operational space launch facility is what?

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True or False, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a US Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.

TRUE

FALSE

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Which physics laboratories and facilities worldwide have been and are being used to understand the observations made using radiation astronomy?

Fermilab

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Argonne National Laboratory

CERN

46

In addition to the United States of America and Russia, what other nation has launch humans into orbit above the Earth.

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True or False, The first successful attempt to detect X-rays above the Earth's surface occurred at White Sands Proving Grounds.

TRUE

FALSE

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What are a number of reasons to consider probing from different geographical or spatial locations?

only so many stars can be observed from one location on Earth

measuring an X-ray background noise

scattering by the Earth's upper atmosphere

placing them away from population centers

trigonometric parallax

STEREO

49

Suborbital probing may be accomplished from different geographical locations using?

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True or False, The Mauna Kea Observatories are used for scientific research across the electromagnetic spectrum from visible light to radio, and comprise the largest such facility in the world.

TRUE

FALSE

51

Which geographical phenomena are associated with Stonehenge?

celestial observation

lightning

eclipses

solstices

a topographic high

equinoxes

a remarkably even horizon

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True or False, Aquila is a Zodiacal constellation.

TRUE

FALSE

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True or False, The ecliptic passes through the constellation of Canis Major.

TRUE

FALSE

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True or False, The ecliptic passes through the constellation of Caelum.

TRUE

FALSE

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True or False, The Galactic plane passes through the constellation of Canis Major.

TRUE

FALSE

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True or False, The Galactic plane passes through the constellation of Aquila.

TRUE

FALSE

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True or False, The Galactic plane passes through the constellation of Caelum.